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“It’s really, really easy to fall in love online,” says Mannix, who now writes an agony aunt column for the Soulmates website. “Someone telling you their hopes and dreams, that’s very compelling. Imagination fills in all the gaps. Even those of us who know how writing works and should be more cynical seem to fall in love all the more readily. The one thing I tell people (in my column) over and over again is do not fall in love until they meet.”

I’ve been on line since ‘93 and this has never happened to me. I think I’m too busy building sites. I also naturally weary of ‘new’ people.

Peter asks :just out of curiosity, can everyone who reads this mail me and tell me why you do? So I told him his stuff is strangely compelling and it reminds me of Dublin.

I also wish I could let go like that, sometimes.

Got Swish. Seems to be the Flash tool for klutzes such as myself.

Ultrashock. Utralongwait. Worth it. Download .fla’s to see how the hard stuff is done.

I don’t know what it is about Flash that I can’t get the hang of it. I’ve now tried numerous times to pick it up, but I lose interest quickly (I find it incredibly time consuming and tedious) and I also forget EVERYTHING I learn, instantly. A few months ago I had so little work to do at my previous job, I got underway with some tutorials. Yesterday I played with the programme again and found out I had remembered nothing. Ayway, I ended up dumping some background music in gavinfriday.com using a tiny flash file. I would like to impress the, ahem, client with an animated intro – anyone got suggestions of what I could do that isn’t too complicated and doesn’t involve technomusic and swirling globes, i.e. is faithful to the style of the site?

Australian wines doing well: “Language is an element. Many people would far rather ask for an Australian wine than reel off a complicated chateau name.” Well, that’s a load of toss. I just think they taste better. (Check those image captions, by the way.)

I could do with a laugh. Send me something funny.

I’ve removed Blogvoices because it was slowing down the site in the evenings (when America wakes up). Something else is coming. It’s not exactly home grown, but it WILL be Dutch. ~vandenb is using it already.

(Warning, drama queen post) When I signed up for life I remember them mentioning ‘golden future’, ‘happiness ever after’, ‘fluffy white clouds’, ‘peking duck every day’… they never said anything about the friggin’ heartache.

I woke up this morning and the first thing I did, was I walked over to the cd player and played this song. It has absolutely no relevance to my life, but I wanted to hear it anyway. I don’t have the Gene Pitney or Cindy Lauper version, mine’s off the Star for one nightCD.

Matt goes back to work. Congrats!